Meena Seralathan

Meena is an intellectual property attorney whose practice is focused on patent litigation in Federal District Court and before the US International Trade Commission.

Meena provides in-depth legal and technical analysis in cases involving high tech technologies, through drafting pleadings and briefs, preparing witnesses and attorney teams for depositions and trial, developing and drafting expert witness statements, motions and responses, and legal memoranda. Meena brings to her role prior experience drafting and prosecuting US and international patents and responding to patent office actions. Meena has experience in a broad range of technology areas, including adaptive bitrate streaming, semiconductors, machine learning, malware detection, cybersecurity, networking hardware and software, wireless networks, data encryption, and computer programming. Meena has also, pro bono, assisted a client seeking asylum in the United States and in drafting a Board of Immigration Appeal Brief.

Prior to joining Mintz, Meena served as an assistant district attorney with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, where she worked on misdemeanor hearings and trials as well as felony cases, including grand jury presentations. Earlier, she was a patent agent in the New York office of a California-based global law firm and a technical advisor and patent agent at an international law firm based in New York.

In law school, Meena served as executive articles editor of the Brooklyn Journal of International Law as well as an intern with the Children’s Law Center in Brooklyn and the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. While earning her bachelor’s degree, Meena studied the efficacy of non-traditional cues and movement systems in in iPhone video game applications as a student researcher at the University of North Carolina through the Computing Research Association’s Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. She was also twice a summer science research fellow at Bryn Mawr College, where she studied recurrent artificial neural networks and drafted a code library for the use of a humanoid robot in a computer science course.